Today in music history- March 7, 1970- Simon and Garfunkels album Bridge Over Troubled Water started a 10-week run at #1 on the US chart. The duo had split-up by the time of release. 1973, A song from the movie Deliverance called Dueling Banjos by Eric Weissberg and Steve Mandel became one of the few 1970s instrumentals to be awarded a Gold record. The record had topped the Cash Box Magazine Best Sellers list and reached #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. 1976, Elton John was immortalized in wax at Madame Tussauds in London. The first rock star to be so since The Beatles. 1987- The Beastie Boys became the first rap act to have a #1 album in the US with their debut album, Licensed To Ill. 1987- The first five Beatles albums, Please Please Me, With the Beatles, A Hard Days Night, Beatles for Sale and Help! were released on Compact disc. Capitol Records decided to release the original UK mixes of the Beatles albums, which means that the first four CDs are released in mono. This marks the first time that many of these mono mixes were available in the US. 1988- American female impersonator and actor Divine (Harris Glenn Milstead), died in his sleep of heart failure aged 42. 1945- Born on this day, Chris White, bassist with The Zombies
Posted on: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 16:51:00 +0000
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